An Elastic Compute Service (ECS) is a cloud computing service with flexible processing capacity. Flexible here means that the computing resources can be adjusted instantaneously based on demand. Provisioning a customized ECS instance It is relatively simple to create an ECS instance on Alibaba. All it takes is 3 steps: Register an Alibaba account and […]
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Import or Push large repositories to GitHub
If one repository is over 2GB in size, one won’t be able to push or import to GitHub. Also, files larger than 100MB cannot be pushed to GitHub. However, there are some alternatives that may help one accomplish it: You can use the BFG repo cleaner to clean out some history or remove any large […]
AI Notebooks with GitHub repo in GCP
Overview We will create a bucket using the GCP console, launch AI Platform Notebooks and clone a GitHub repository within that AI Platform instance. Create a bucket using the GCP console In your GCP Console, click on the Navigation menu (), and select Storage. 2. Click on Create bucket. 3. Choose a Regional bucket and […]
How to blur your house on Google Street View
Google Street View, launched in 2007, provides a street-level view of many cities and towns around the world. In 2010, the company admitted that, when their vehicles are circling neighborhoods around the world, they have been secretly collecting information from unencrypted WiFi networks they drove past for years. If you are concerned with your privacy, […]
How does a GitHub Profile README look like
GitHub released a new feature that allows each user personalize their profiles. It is really easy to do that. I will break it down in a couple of steps so that you can reproduce: Create a repository with the name of your GitHub username (in my case it was GoncaloPeres). Make sure that the repo […]
